In the following year, Hippisley and Chapman presented _A Devil of a Duke_; and Hallam relied for success upon _Fair Rosamond_. Lee and Woodward, whose booth stood opposite the hospital gate, produced _Darius, King of Persia_, "with the comical humours of Sir Andrew Aguecheek at the siege of Babylon." Anachronisms of this kind were common at theatrical booths in those days, when comic Englishmen of one type or another were constantly introduced, without regard to the scene or the period of the drama to be represented. Audiences were not sufficiently educated to be critical in such matters, and managers could plead the example of Shakspeare, who was then esteemed a greater authority than he is considered to be at the present day. Yates made his first appearance as a showman this year, in partnership with Turbutt, who set up a booth opposite the King's Head, and produced a pantomime called _Thamas Kouli Khan_, founded on recent news from the East. An epilogue, in the character of a drunken English sailor, was spoken by Yates, of whom Churchill wrote,-- "In characters of low and vulgar mould, Where nature's coarsest features we behold Where, destitute of every decent grace, Unmanner'd jests are blurted in your face; There Yates with justice strict attention draws, Acts truly from himself, and gains applause." There was a second and smaller booth in the name of Hallam, in which tumbling and rope-dancing were performed; but whether belonging to the actor or to another showman of the same name is uncertain. Fawkes and Pinchbeck exhibited the latter's model of the Siege of Carthagena, with which a comic dramatic performance was combined. The office of Master of the Revels was held at this time by Heidegger, a native of Zurich, who was also manager of the Italian Opera. He was one of the most singular characters of the time, and as remarkable for his personal ugliness as for the eccentricity of his manners. The profanity of his language was less notable in that age than his candour. Supping on one occasion with a party of gentlemen of rank, the comparative ingenuity of different nations became the theme of conversation, when the first place was claimed by Heidegger for his compatriots. "I am myself a proof of what I assert," said he. "I was born a Swiss, and came to England without a farthing, where I have found means to gain five thousand a year and to spend it. Now, I defy the most able Englishman to go to Switzerland and either to gain that income, or to spend it there."